Live Play Data

Delighted Halfling

· Creature — Halfling Citizen · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)

14%

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

5579

Decks Running

2428

Median Cast Turn

4.0

Drawn → Played

77%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=1118

30%

12%

27%

T6-9

T10+

Median 4.0 P25 1 · P75 6 · max 24

On curve 30% (336 / 1118 cast on T1) Cast same turn as drawn 72%

The "good card" funnel

5580 brought · 1587 players

Brought to game

5580

Ever drawn

1444

Reached battlefield

1118

Still on board at game end

643

Once cast, 58% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +5.2pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=1004) , vs 29% when it never left the library (n=3421).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 45% (n=292).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +8.3pp; 95% confidence interval +5.2pp to +11.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1587 instances

3.5%

Library

40.5%

Battlefield

33.5%

Graveyard

6.5%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 The Ur-Dragon 79 decks
2 Jodah, the Unifier 58 decks
3 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 56 decks
4 Witherbloom, the Balancer 47 decks
5 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER 41 decks
6 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness 39 decks
7 Gishath, Sun's Avatar 38 decks
8 Aragorn, the Uniter 37 decks
9 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit 37 decks
10 Henzie "Toolbox" Torre 36 decks

Card text

Delighted Halfling

Creature — Halfling Citizen

: Add

: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a legendary spell, and that spell can't be countered.

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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Rare · Illustrated by Inka Schulz

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 710,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.